[HN Gopher] Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and famil...
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away
from AI
Author : breve
Score : 38 points
Date : 2025-11-23 21:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| paulpauper wrote:
| For what it's worth, I have found AI useful. I have not had any
| negative experiences with Chat GPT.
| shinycode wrote:
| Not to be sarcastic but the sample of your study is quite
| light. (I too I found it useful for my particular use case but
| that doesn't say much either)
| curtisblaine wrote:
| To be honest, the sample of the Guardian's study is also
| quite light (a dozen people) and with much more selection
| bias (people who work with AI).
| kbrkbr wrote:
| As is the sample in this article. You will surely find as
| many physicists saying earth is flat, mathematicians who hold
| that Cantor was wrong, and medical doctors that tell you
| vaccination against measles is overall worse than not.
| barcoder wrote:
| Today I heard two negative cases from a friend interacting her
| clients. The first client replied to her emails by sending
| ChatGPT logs, apparently unable to communicate on his own. The
| second believed a ChatGPT hallucination that he was entitled to
| a special Amazon business account. She had to explain to him
| that ChatGPT will tell him convincing bullshit, which was news
| to him. One can only wonder what terrible choices and wrong
| beliefs he had made up until the moment of enlightenment.
| swatcoder wrote:
| Cool.
|
| As a consultant and subject matter expert, pretty every week, I
| have to make billable detours from productive work to explain
| to a client how they've been led astray by some ChatGPT
| response that they put errant trust in. It's been critically
| wrong pretty much any time a client's presented me with a
| response from it. I get paid to help when this haple s and to
| fix things that go wrong, so I guess technically that's not a
| negative from my perspective, but it is kind of frustrating and
| does seem pretty wasteful.
|
| Meanwhile, as a friend, I've consistently had to coach people
| through doubting what they've received as medical guidance from
| ChatGPT and other chatbot or search LLM's, variously pointing
| out how: (a) the response doesn't actually agree with the cited
| sources nor correct information, (b) the cited are poor
| authorities (blogspam) and are not correct themselves, or (c)
| both.
|
| Thankfully, the consequences in both these kinds of scenarios
| have been innocuous to date, so ostensibly "not negative",
| because _most_ ChatGPT /chatbot inquiries are really for moot
| trivia rather than anything of true consequence, but it's
| repeatedly shown itself to be a pretty risky and unreliable
| tool, as things go, so I accept that it's only a matter of time
| before the true "negative experience" comes and nudge people
| away from it when I can.
| hollow-moe wrote:
| Who could have guessed ?
|
| Just like social media bigshots don't allow their kids to use
| them, tech people using the oldest Thinkpad they can find running
| debian or a drug dealer doesn't consume his own product.
| globular-toast wrote:
| Reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's _Travel by Wire!_
| RickJWagner wrote:
| I'm American, currently living in a rural southern state.
|
| I live near a city with a large African-American population. I've
| worked in blue color jobs. I've met quite a few people that might
| be called racist.
|
| I've never heard the term 'moon cricket'.
| lovich wrote:
| That's cause it's ancient and most of the media that would have
| mentioned it hasn't been shown in polite society for decades
|
| That's like 1930s era slang
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